Harriette's blogblog

Idea for scare scenes

2011-03-03T12:14:00.000-08:00

Clock
A clock chiming loudly and popping out.

Lights flickering- will increase the scare.

Weird faces being shown quickly.

Im still unsure on what to do with my scares but as i create on 3d max i think i will get more of an idea.

my animation so far

2011-03-03T12:02:00.001-08:00

Naming My ride

2011-03-03T11:23:00.000-08:00

Looking up the idea of nothing being 'normal' inside the dolls house searched name ideas with the original idea be home sweet home i think it didn't really have a catch to it. I'm happy with the name of my ride as it doesn't give to much away and leaves people curious.

Entrance

2011-03-03T11:21:00.000-08:00

My Cart ideas :

2011-03-03T11:20:00.000-08:00

My attempt of making a mouldy apple into my cart:

My thoughts and inspirations

2011-03-03T11:14:00.000-08:00

The journey of the roller coaster i want the viewer/passenger to get confused with whats real and whats not. I wont be having scary ghosts or the stereotypical 'scare'. It is going to be based inside a house with usual household objects, however they are altered in certain ways to create a certain scare factor.My inspiration for this has come from Tim Burton films for example Beetle juice its a normal house inside there are weird shaped objects that get your mind thinking. In Alice in Wonderland the queens head is enlarged little adjustments like this making the normal seem abnormal.

First Part of this rollercoaster ride

2011-03-03T11:08:00.000-08:00

The start

This is the plan and layout for my roller coaster. As I'm basing my ride inside a dolls house and needing it to fit in with the measurements of Waverly theatre the downstairs is to the left and the upstairs is to the right where it goes up its a pretty simple layout but once all the walls are added i think it will work well.

My Moodboard

2011-01-18T11:13:00.000-08:00

I chose different fonts to get a feel of what i liked and didn't i think all the fonts represent a piece of my personality so this works well.

eXistenZ

2011-01-16T10:05:00.000-08:00

Narrative,Interactivity and Convergence?

The narrative of the film shows the process of continuous doubt in the viewers and arguably the characters too.It creates the idea of what is real and what isn't.It features two main characters throughout they too doubting reality it involves the new arrival of a virtual reality game. The film is that of a sci fi genre.Interactivity in the film is effective as it could possibly lead you to doubt your actions. The film reaches audiences minds making them confused, it allows you to open up your imagination in the film.

Todays Animation

2010-11-23T13:57:00.000-08:00

I struggled at today's animation session but I wasn't alone! I think with a programme like auto desk 3d max it takes a lot of time playing around familiarising yourself with the software and such.
Any who this is what i managed to create.

Tuesdays Task

2010-11-21T10:17:00.000-08:00

Following our lecture on C.R.A.P which is basically a guideline for a deisgn layout and any screen space. We were asked to find a design on a poster or leaflet and re-design it in photoshop this is mine:

This was the original.

This was mine edited.

I chose this leaflet because when i looked at it I wondered well whats Milianos I don't think it clearly states that its a pizza place it could be a website for all I knew. I also looked at it and felt the colour didn't do the ability to read any favours with the red faintly on the black and faint white on the green it didn't catch the viewers eye.Also i found the whole picture very packed there was to much going on I don't understand why they would put what looks to me like an icy christmassy picture on the picture when it has no resemblance to pizza it just confuses the reader. I examined these issues and tried to adjust them.

Animation Today

2010-11-18T09:30:00.000-08:00

Today we practiced our drawing skills as we learnt it was a very important aspect to animation. I learnt that you can produce a drawing by using feeling and your eye its what you see. To start Debra modelled for us and we had to draw her movements these were quite fun:)

Then we were asked to draw the negative space of the chairs which had been set up I'll admit that I'm not the best at drawing in the world but i really struggled with this i couldn't quite get the hang of not drawing the actual object it was just happening by mistake so i found this quite frustrating.

I managed to draw the structure of chairs laid upon each other before i went into the session I probably wouldn't of even been able to draw a complicated structure like that but yep i did it just about !

I enjoyed this session and feel i learnt a lot about the way of drawing and the way you look at something and can draw it the way you see it.

Animation

2010-11-17T14:07:00.000-08:00

First day of animation and believe it or not but the word jelly took me two hours to work out how to do it despite me having a list of instructions and being talked through it. When i finished jelly i actually started experimenting with 3d max and made an apple that spun i was quite proud unfortunately it went all wrong and i couldn't undo the mistakes so didn't save it. I've got 3d max installed on my laptop so I'm going to just play around with it and see what happens.

End of interactive space

2010-11-17T13:05:00.000-08:00

Starting off on the interactive space project I seemed to concentrate more on sequential images producing a lot of images that told a step by step story such as the process of the seasons changing the leaves from green to brown it’s not so much a story but more of a sequence but I used all these images as a starting point. Learning that I needed more of a story line I used the teddy bear and went through the process of drinking then being sick then going to bed. On to the second week I used some eggs and made various backgrounds to create a step by step story drawing faces on the eggs I made characters and set the scenes with various backgrounds completing with a story of love and heartbreak. Coming up with my final idea I tended not to struggle with story lines but more the branching off and creating various situations and endings. Looking back at my final project it’s clear to see that I adapted the previous work I had done with the eggs and teddy for example I used the same idea of having backdrops and making it into like a freeze frame story with people and used the idea of drugs and heartbreak as influences towards my final Lego piece. I did think about using projection and creating tableaus using people in one of the studios and projecting images on to the back wall I think this would have been much more effective. I feel looking back at my project it would be interesting and appealing to the user if it had more scenarios more people and more chances for various outcomes. Also in the images I used the use of colour and size for the user to be able to identify where to click so all the words are big, bold and in yellow or blue and red for a bad ending. I’m not sure whether the user would prefer and find it more capturing if they were to click on items related to the scenario for example when bobby as to sell drugs click on the bag of drugs. If i were to do something that involved having a user again I could ask people and make a tally of what comes out the most popular. Overall I’m happy with my project I think it’s eye-catching and entertaining for the user and not complicated therefore boring for the user to use

Putting my work into a html format if I’m honest I struggled at first but I’m glad I did a trial run with other pictures because I think it’s one of those things that if you play around with it and learn what goes what and where you soon realise that actually it could have been just one bracket out of place that was causing your picture not to come up that’s the problem I had at first and it was such a relief to learn that !

see mine:) at :

http://www.makingnewmaps.com/

My final interactive space project

2010-11-09T10:12:00.000-08:00

Following my egg idea i feel i progressed on it and used the lives of two Lego men and women to create different scenarios in which the viewer can decide on what pathway to take whether it will end out good or bad. I think the idea came from the videos we looked at during one of our classes which was a video on you tube which you could pick the outcome related to knife crime. I'm happy with my final outcome as you look down my blog you can see the change in ideas i had which finally left me to the Lego creation. In the edit i used bright colours for the text so the viewer would know where to click to continue light blue for Daisy's and yellow for Bobby's and red if the outcome was bad all the pictures after the various scenarios end back at the index page which is at the top.

My 15 pics

2010-11-04T07:18:00.001-07:00

My pictures Top to Bottom

maybe more of a story

2010-11-01T14:23:00.000-07:00

This is just a quick story i put together because although i prefer my other pictures I'm still not sure if we have to tell a story in our sequential images:

Interactive Space so far..

2010-11-01T13:55:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure whether these tell a story as such but they are certainly sequential, for example the transition from leaves shows the clear movement through the autumn and how leaves change in shape and colour.

Interactive space

2010-10-28T07:38:00.000-07:00

Currently in interactive space:) Have found it really intresting looking at John Heartfield photo montage and how he used composition and scale to make a piece of politcal art.

Also looked at early cinema and european cinema such as Hans Ritcher. I found Marco Brambilas work incredible the video montage in sequence of a lift.

This is a sequence i put together from a North by Northwest basicaly i thought of te man seeing womens lips he wants them she responds with a smile then kiss.I also adjusted the contrast and brightness to see the differnce.

Bad day

2010-10-26T11:51:00.000-07:00

I'm still in bed today has been such a bad day feeling so ill and sick, just want it to go away!

Oneshot Film: Was it worth it?

2010-10-26T11:45:00.000-07:00

This is our final group edit:

The music was chosen because it times well with the transition from the door to the party.
I'd like to say that the end of this project it certainly made me realise how hard it is to take a one shot depsite the fact we did push the boundaries in order to have more personality it was still very difficult with all the post production work. The idea we had in our head is similar to what we have produced however we inteded it to be more alive but with the lack of helpers from struggling to find them we found ourselves with limited resources to do this as they were needed behind the scenes example holding up the cardboard therfore if i was to do it again i would use so many more people.I liked our use of lighting as we used a purple gel tint on our party to make it seem more alive and also the lighting at the end on the table.I think we really used the idea of lighting. Also if i was to do it again i would wish for a bigger area space as it we struggle with the size of our props and the limited amount of space thinking abou it now we could have organised the set differntly to enable this but i dont think the limited space damages the film in anyway, however i do think it would be improved if we had that. I like the fact when we filmed we thought about where our credits would go and left space for that. Overall there are many things that i would like to change but im happy with our end product :)

L-A-Z-Y

2010-10-24T17:08:00.001-07:00

I'm feeling so lazy today! so i thought i would share this video with you.
I wish i could be this guy so bad! Its such a good video :)

Edit- Sound

2010-10-24T16:39:00.000-07:00

Thinking about the group edit and my own personal edit, ive been thinking about what would fit most with the scenario and movement in the film. The beginning i thought about keeping the orignal sick noise, however we intended for the noise to muted and for it purely to be edited on. I came across the song Puke by Eminem and at the start of the song you hear sick noises which fit very well.Obviously i would have the noise up untill Eminem starts to sing.
I needed to think about a fast moving song that goes straight into it for the party scene basically have picked a few mainly from the band Bloc Party.
To finish off the video i needed a song which had a sense of regret as it ends with 'Was it worth it' which basically is the main focus to our film searching through my music i found this song by The Drums to play out the end of the short film it fits well.

Unedit

2010-10-21T05:33:00.000-07:00

Obviously we used a lot of movement and really pushed the boundaries that were set with our brief. I wish that we had a bigger area to work with and more cardboard to ensure we wouldnt beable to see people holding the cardboard and things off set. However i could argue that thats actually how we wanted it to look we didnt want it to be fully polished and that it was meant to look like a film set. We spent along time developing the set with the making of the cardboard doors and walls to the lifting a sofa through the door. I'm really excited to edit it i have lots of ideas youllll seee :) x

One Shot Finished ... WELL NEARLY

2010-10-21T05:03:00.000-07:00

OUR ONE SHOT FILM

Nice early start this morning and after a lot of takes we finaly got our one shot its still a bit rusty and there is so much that we would of liked to do differntly however i will be telling you about that it in a later blog. The idea we had we were really pleased with however i think we underestimated the difficulty of the task in our heads for example how flimsy carboard can be when using it as a door and wall and how many people we would need to hold it up!! I'm currently uploading the unedited version to you tube so will have it up tonight. Whilst checking the back wall i noticed this little mousey home which of course we couldnt get in the shot :) x

Preparation

2010-10-20T13:46:00.000-07:00

Yesterday my group got together and started on the making of the set for out one shot film. We managed to get lots and lots and lots of cardboard from the graphics department and also tesco! Then we got some duct tape and travelled back to toms where we made two cardboard walls with doors for our set. During that time we also finalised everyones jobs within the production and wrote down the list of actors we are using. We've booked the studio and equipment so all thats left now is to film! I hope it all goes well :) ..... well i'll let you know tomorrow :D

Lighting

2010-10-17T13:57:00.000-07:00

On friday we did lighting and learned the use of various ways on how to light by performing an interview. Our group found reflecting useful, however over used it on my face opposed to Tom's who didnt have enough lighting on him which made him look washed out. We also filmed outside and inside learning the contrast between intensity, coherence and the colour temperature.

Our one Shot

2010-10-15T10:21:00.000-07:00

Our one shot film is coming along, last week we looked through various you tube videos in order to gain inspiration. Here are just a few of the videos that we looked at :
http://youtu.be/3jftfU30xJg
http://youtu.be/L6FLo2j5A8U
Tom has now drawn out a story board of our film and now we are just organising and finding things we need such as large amounts of cardboard !!

My Room

2010-10-11T06:45:00.000-07:00

So my room at university is becoming a bit boring and fed up of seeing the moudly blue tack marks which i often play dot to dot with in my head to help me sleep... SOOOOO i have now decided to 'Jazz' it up a bit. I'm going to buy some fairy lights and make collage's for the wall stuff from home and stuff from university maybe built upon my life, no doubt my wall will be filled with music posters by the end of it and Robert Pattinson mmm :) x

HOME

2010-10-10T07:20:00.000-07:00

Home sweet home for the weekend, feels like i'd never been gone apart from the fact my room is extremely empty as most of my stuff was moved into my small room at uni ( still dont know how it all fit)
Tommorrow meeting up with my group to organise and maybe film our one shot film although not sure on where we are going to get so much cardboard from if we are following up with the same idea to make different sets with one person in them. I suppose i could get started on doing some design for the set will be simple but look effective at the end well so we hope as we plan to film it inside ( maybe because we wont get interupted by drunken men this time).
CIAO FOR NOW.

My First One Shot Film

2010-10-09T04:00:00.000-07:00

We went to the Arboretum park to film our video and came across a big dilema, we had just set up and found we had one minute left on film so we were going to have one practice but also we were ambushed by three drunken old men who became very intrigued by our filming one was chanting and one sat down and one could hardly speak what a dilema. Soooo to conclude it was a bit of a disaster coming back with nothing despite the fact we had rehearsed the Michael Jackson classic thriller quite a few times.

My First Post

2010-09-29T05:12:00.000-07:00

This is my first blog whilst ongoing my multimedia course. I'm on my induction nervous but excited to get started on the course!